“He made a recommendation,” he said of Rosenstein. “He’s highly respected. Very good guy, very smart guy. The Democrats like him, the Republicans like him.”

Trump’s tweet on Friday follows hours after Rosenstein issued a press release warning Americans to not trust news reports based on anonymous sources.

“Americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous ‘officials,’ particularly when they do not identify the country — let alone the branch or agency of government — with which the alleged sources supposedly are affiliated,” Rosenstein said in a statement issued through the Justice Department.

“Americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations. The Department of Justice has a long-established policy to neither confirm nor deny such allegations.”

That statement came just after reports that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s Russian business dealings.